[Plan] Week4: 5 Sep 2011 - Greetings

Source: musthavemenus.com

I am on a roll here, doing three study plans one after another, one more to go and then I will be up-to-date.

Cultural tidbit of the week:- Greetings with a bow

The vocabulary to be learnt this week:-

• Adjective: to be well
• Copula: to be (equation) 이다 (이에요/예요)
• Number: sino-numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4
• Particle: also, too 도; topic particle 은/는
• Pronoun: I
• Expression:
  • "Hello." 안영하세요?
  • "Goodbye." - to the one staying 안영히 계세요.
  • "Goodbye." - to the one leaving 안영히 가세요.

The grammer points to be digested:-

1. Equational expressions: [Noun1]은/는 [Noun2]이에요/예요
2. Omission of redundant elements
3. Comparing items: 은/는 vs 도

Here is my study plan for the week beginning 05 September 2011.

Here are my views on the learning resources that I have chosen:-

• I find the conversation audio in IK a bit too fast for an absolute beginner, I have to concentrate very very hard to catch every word and meaning , even after I have studied and memorised all the necessary vocabulary for that conversation.
• I like the TTMIK podcast lessons and the accompanying PDF notes very much, each lesson contains bite sized Korean words/phrases so it is not very difficult to 'master' those and then move on to the next lesson. I also enjoy the exchanges between the two main presenters, fairly relaxed.
  The best of all is that everything is FREE. TTMIK 재미있어요!!!
• KoreanClass101 on the other hand, I find the podcast lessons (the Newbie Season 1 anyway) a bit staged.
  However, I do find the PDF lesson notes very good and detailed, so it should be as I have paid for a yearly premium subscription for this learning site, since that's the only way to get access to the lesson notes and referencing facilites.